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11Plain song — Plain Plain, a. [Compar. {Plainer}; superl. {Plainest}.] [F., level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf. {Llano}, {Piano}, {Plan}, {Plane} level, a level surface.] 1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even.… …
12Plain speaking — Plain Plain, a. [Compar. {Plainer}; superl. {Plainest}.] [F., level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf. {Llano}, {Piano}, {Plan}, {Plane} level, a level surface.] 1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even.… …
13Speech perception — is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology.… …
14speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… …
15Speech Application Language Tags — (SALT) is an XML based markup language that is used in HTML and XHTML pages to add voice recognition capabilities to web based applications.DescriptionSpeech Application Language Tags enables multimodal and telephony enabled access to information …
16plain speech — index plain language Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
17plain — [adj1] clear, obvious apparent, audible, big as life*, broad, comprehensible, definite, distinct, evident, legible, lucid, manifest, open, open and shut*, palpable, patent, talking turkey*, transparent, understandable, visible; concepts… …
18plain language — noun accepted language, clear language, cogent writing, concise writing, conventional language, correct English, exact writing, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, precise expression, precise writing, specific writing, unambiguous… …
19plain´-spo´ken|ness — plain spo|ken «PLAYN SPOH kuhn», adjective. plain or frank in speech: »a plain spoken man, a plain spoken rebuke. SYNONYM(S): blunt, outspoken, candid. –plain´ spo´ken|ness, noun …
20plain-spo|ken — «PLAYN SPOH kuhn», adjective. plain or frank in speech: »a plain spoken man, a plain spoken rebuke. SYNONYM(S): blunt, outspoken, candid. –plain´ spo´ken|ness, noun …
